‘Pitch Perfect 2,’ those scenes are super fun. It’s just me and John Michael Higgins, and we’ve been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.
The feeling of pleasure and enjoyment from what we do is extremely important. It creates trust and respect when you walk into the dressing room or onto the pitch.
If the owner wants to support the team, that’s okay. If the owner can be on the pitch and score a couple of goals, it would be better!
Many players enter the pitch just to change shirts, but I don’t.
I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the ‘Pitch Perfect.’
I think, when I was younger and I was on loan, I used to get nervous before games, but as you get older, you adapt to it, and it becomes second nature to walk out onto the pitch and perform.
After a great save or a mistake by a defender, I prefer not to shout on him; I prefer to wait and say it inside of the dressing room. I was always like that. I am relaxed, I try to be normal after a mistake, and when I make a mistake, I don’t want people coming to me on the pitch shouting at me.
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.
Play with joy, enjoy every moment make sure you enjoy every second you’re on the pitch.
People on the outside see a Neymar on the pitch, but that’s not him. People see him doing tricks and dribbles and think that he is only trying to enjoy himself, that he’s selfish and only thinks about himself. But when you share a dressing room with him you realise that it’s not the case.
I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I’m waiting for it to stop, and the team’s manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he’s already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, ‘If you screw this up, they will boo you.’ And I said ‘Thanks.’
The one thing I loved so much about making ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ – especially in comparison to a movie like ‘Ten Thousand Saints’ – is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.
The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You’re running out on relays all the time. You’re covering second base. On every pitch, you’re moving.
People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club’s reputation.
‘Pitch Perfect 2’ is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro – she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She’s the most mature girl ever.
I didn’t go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn’t pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn’t even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.
I know what my strengths and weaknesses are on the pitch. My duty is to be risk averse.
To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.
I have a short, home-made armguard because I don’t like the regular ones. I’d wear that on a lively pitch. I don’t use a chest guard because I find it too restrictive.
I know what is important. When I go to the pitch, I cannot laugh; I respect the other players. I try my best and put my passion inside the game.
A good attitude is really important. And a sense of optimism, someone who has ideas and isn’t afraid to pitch them no matter what level she is. Someone who is proactive. Someone with efficiency and common sense. They don’t always go hand-in-hand, common sense and, well, everything else.
I can’t remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.
Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.
I have a go at defenders, and they have a go at me. We argue… Whatever happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.
Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.
When I go out onto the pitch, I don’t do so thinking about objectives or the need to win. I think about enjoying it, but from a point of view of responsibility and of giving your all.
People think footballers are all like robots – we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it’s very, very physical.
Whenever I’m on the pitch, I feel confident.
In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.
I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.
I think a top-class midfielder needs to be able to tackle, get up and down the pitch, pass, create opportunities, and score goals. That’s why I try to do everything; that’s what I judge my game on.
Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, ‘I have to get this wicket.’ When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
Your name or what you’ve done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I’m going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit.
As a player on the bench, you become like a fan really. You’re sitting there shouting ‘why did he do that?’ or ‘no don’t pass it there’ and I can see why fans get so frustrated. But then I remember what it is like being out there on the pitch and how players can’t see everything that fans can see.
If a footballer goes on the pitch with the right mentality, he will perform well.
I would do a ‘Pitch Perfect 29’, where the Bellas take on the Spaniards instead of the Germans. All the girls would have to learn Spanish. I’ll teach them!
When I look back at my career it is nice to know that I’ve been appreciated on and off the pitch because not everyone is.
As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for months on end. From a quick conversation with your boss or a letter that’ll be read by just one person, to a five-minute speech in front of 50 colleagues or cover copy that’ll be in front of millions of eyes.
You always intend to do this and that, but then you have to go out and do it on the pitch.
Every time I step on the pitch, I feel proud to play for my club and my country, so to get to show this pride through my boots has meant a great deal to me.
It’s helped to develop me on the pitch, knowing all the positions, but also it’s a good asset to have, that versatility. I’m able to move if I’m needed.
I have realised what my pitch is, and I’m in this industry for the pure reason that I love acting.
How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That’s the real question.
You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.
There’s no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn’t do anything.
Every club you sign for, they give you the same pitch – ‘We’ve got a big project, big ambitions. We want to achieve this and that. We want to kick on’ – and I just happen to be lucky that City was the one club that didn’t lie about it.
We are footballers, so if you’ve got to play with someone, you’ve got to play with them. What happens off the pitch, well, you can’t get on with everyone you work with.
No one ever actually said they were resistant because ‘Pitch Perfect’ was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it.
I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.
I consider myself a player who fights and gives everything on the pitch. Those who know me and appreciate those values understand what I say.
I do not think about formations too often. It is the easiest thing to recognize and to see on the pitch, but when the game starts is when things start to get weird.
Great players must always produce and at any time or in any game. Give them a ball and a pitch, and they will show what they’ve got. That relaxed, calm spirit you don’t really have when you are young.
And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we’re familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.
For me, I do everything all the way. When I love my wife, I love her all the way. This isn’t a sales pitch; this isn’t a tagline. You’ll see us in our 80s, and we’ll be sitting together on a rocking chair. That’s how it is. That’s how it ends for us.
With every side I’ve played for, I’ve always tried to fit in and joke with my team mates while enjoying good times with them on and off the pitch. And that’s what’s happened with Les Bleus.
